Tape drive sharing on LPARS -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Tape drive sharing on LPARS
From: sneha verma <snehaverma001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:34:25 +0530
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Hello,

I have a question regarding tape drive sharing on LPARS.

There AS400 Box(V5R3) has 5 LPARS and 4 Tape Drives.The tape library is
TS3310(Media Class Ultrium 3).We also have BRMS installed for Backup and
Tape Management.

3 of the 4 drives are dedicated to 3 partitions.The other 2 partitions share
the 4th drive.

Can you please let me know the following:

1.How the 4 th tape drive will be shared between the 2 partitions to take
the backups?.

2.Does this mean that the backups on these 2partitions will take place at
different times?

3.In event of failure of any one of these 4 Tape Drives ,how can the other
tape drives be moved to the related partition to take the backup?

Many Thanks
Sneha

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